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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Searching for the answers, a topflight British opinion-sampling organization called Mass-Observation interviewed 500 people in a semi-suburban borough of London. The results, published in a book called Puzzled People (Victor Gollancz, 7s. 6d.), do not add up to a complete cross section of British religious thinking. Nonetheless, Puzzled People makes profitable reading for churchmen, sociologists and trendspotters in the U.S. as well as England. Highlights...
...more and less educated people so far as expressed belief in God is concerned, there is a major difference in their attitude to life after death: 66% of those with secondary education say they believe in life after death; 41% of those with elementary education say [they believe]." Explains Mass-Observation: ". . . The greater disbelief of the less educated means that many of them have nothing to put in the place of hell fire and harps...
Religion. "Thirty-six percent spontaneously define religion in terms of beliefs, faith and God; 32% spontaneously define it in terms of conduct; 14% spontaneously define it by criticising it." Mass-Observation reports "a slight tendency" for more educated people to define religion in terms of belief and the less educated in terms of behavior...
...week's end, worried Keys called his strikers together to see what should be done. He confessed that he had been wrong-along with many industrialists-in his belief that a foreman's strike could shut down a mass-production plant at once, but he hoped another week might turn the trick. The strikers had little hope of winning their demand for exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed...
Keep a Secret. The ruling house of the knickknack premiums is the Robbins Co. of Attleboro, Mass. It manufactures its marvels inside a 50-year-old, grey frame building, ships them out in boxes labeled with descriptions vague enough to baffle spies presumed to be alert for any new top-secret Robbins item...